Friday, October 4, 2024
Against Iris Murdoch’s “Simplified Fantasy-Myth” —
A Real Person
"Against the consolations of form, the clean crystalline
work, the simplified fantasy-myth, we must pit the
destructive power of the now so unfashionable naturalistic
idea of character.
Real people are destructive of myth, contingency is
destructive of fantasy and opens the way for imagination."
— Iris Murdoch, "Against Dryness," January 1961
A New York Times Monday, Sept. 30, theater review by Jesse Green —
"… a story, set in 'the very near future,' in which computer-mediated
interactions — predictive chatbots, large language models, generative
intelligence — are pitted against their analog forebears. What creative
opportunities does such technology afford the artist? What human
opportunities does it squander? Forget the sword: It’s the pen vs. the pixel."
Ilustration for a new drama :
"Goldilocks and the Forebears" —
Suggested musical accompaniment: "Yesterday."
For the Librarian: “Commedia for the Disgruntled” . . .
A check in this journal for the above script date — Nov. 21, 2011 —
yields posts tagged . . .
Thursday, September 5, 2024
Folie à Trois: Spanish Steps in Times Square
See as well Nabokov and Gibson on synesthesia.
"A curriculum, a vigor, a local abstraction . . . " — Wallace Stevens